Drawing questions on constitutionality and prompting criticism in Congress, the president’s feedback got here after he signed an government order final week that ended the separation of immigrant youngsters from their dad and mom underneath a “zero tolerance” coverage introduced two months in the past.

The House is planning to vote this week on a invoice that may enhance border safety and supply a path to citizenship for the younger undocumented immigrants referred to as Dreamers, whereas additionally permitting migrant households to be detained collectively indefinitely.

Mr. Erdogan has overseen a crackdown on attorneys, judges, civil servants and journalists after a failed coup two years in the past. His critics had portrayed the election as their final likelihood to stop Turkey from changing into an authoritarian state.

• The victory might have grave penalties for NATO cooperation, safety in Iraq and Syria, and immigration flows in Europe.

How Assad gassed his personal folks

• Dozens of individuals had been killed in a chemical assault in Douma, Syria, in April — however to this present day, Syrian officers declare it’s all a farce. The Times got down to examine what occurred.

We analyzed greater than 60 movies, in addition to pictures broadcast by Russian TV. We additionally interviewed dozens of witnesses and specialists to reconstruct a digital crime scene, a single constructing that was hit by a chlorine bomb.

An affair rattling Washington media

• James Wolfe, 57, a former aide to the Senate Intelligence Committee, was arrested this month and charged with mendacity about his contact with journalists.

One of these journalists was Ali Watkins, a 26-year-old who was employed by The Times in December to cowl federal regulation enforcement, after the top of a three-year relationship with Mr. Wolfe. Her electronic mail and cellphone data have been seized by federal prosecutors as a part of their investigation.

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• Scientists say new manufacturing of a banned industrial chemical is damaging the ozone layer. An investigation by The Times and an unbiased environmental group led to factories in China.

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia, changing into the most recent Trump administration official to be singled out in public for its insurance policies.

• The 49th annual Pride March in New York City provided a stage for the Democratic major and its two rivals: Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon. It’s not clear that anyone noticed.

Noteworthy

• In memoriam

Donald Hall, a former poet laureate of the U.S., discovered a universe of that means within the apples, ox carts and odd folks of his beloved rural New England. He was 89.

• Into the wild with Kanye West

In the previous two years, the rapper, producer and cultural hearth starter has had wild stretches of public trauma, divisive flirtations with politics, and well being struggles that performed out each in public and in personal.

Speaking with certainly one of our music critics at his resort in Wyoming, Kanye was measured and self-aware, prepared to reckon with the challenges he’s created for himself. Read our interview here.

• “Westworld” recap

The Season 2 finale of HBO’s sci-fi Western could not have been the perfect “Westworld” episode, however it was definitely the most “Westworld” episode, jammed with philosophical and theological conceits. Read our review.

• Quotation of the day

“If export markets get shut off, I could see us getting to the point where we’re dumping our milk in the fields. It’ll be a big ripple effect through the state.”

— Jeff Schwager, president of a longtime cheese producer in Wisconsin.

Mark Walsh, a London-based editor, recommends this piece from The Players’ Tribune, Derek Jeter’s venture to let athletes deal with their followers straight. “Raheem Sterling, one of England’s best soccer players, has been a magnet for tabloid criticism tinged with racism and class snobbery. This is his riposte: a chatty, informal memoir that covers his father’s killing when he was just 2, and the years of hardship he and his mother endured.”

Back Story

Did you see unusual lights within the sky yesterday?

If so, maybe you noticed an extraterrestrial anniversary celebration! The modern era of ufology (sure, it’s a phrase) dawned 71 years in the past on June 24.

Kenneth Arnold had one of many earliest reported sightings of a U.F.O., in 1947.CreditIdaho Statesman, by way of Associated Press

As for Mr. Arnold, stung at being mocked by skeptics, he as soon as complained to an Air Force officer who interviewed him, “If I saw a 10-story building flying through the air I would never say a word about it.”